The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.

                                
                                  Hit fell me on a fryday to fare vppon huntyng.
                                
                                  With myrthe in the mornyng & mony other pepull,
                                
                                  All went we to wod the wilde for to cacche;
                                
                                  And laburt full long, laytyng Aboute.
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                                  Till mydday and more myght we not fynde,
                                
                                  ffor to wyn as for waithe in þat wode brode;
                                
                                  Tyll hit entrid to euyn, & euynsong was past.
                                
                                  Then it fell me by fortune, fer on a playne,
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                                  As I beheld þurgh a holte, a hert for to se,
                                
                                  Þat pastured on a playn pertly hym one:
                                
                                  And I cast me be course to cum hym before.
                                
                                  ffast fro my felowes & fuersly I rode,
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                                  Euþer lede hade I lost, & left me behynde,
                                
                                  And swaruyt out swiftly, might no swayne folo.
                                
                                  So I wilt in the wod and the wilde holtis,
                                
                                  ffer fro my feres, and no freike herde,
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                                  Till I drogh to a derke, and the dere lost.
                                
                                  He þrong into þicke wodes, þester with in,
                                
                                  ffor thornes and tres I tynt hym belyue.
                                
                                  Than I sesit of my sute, & softly doun light,
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                                  Beheld to my horse, þat hote was of Rennyng,
                                
                                  All swoty for swyme and his swift course,
                                
                                  That stremys from hym straght, & stert vppon þe erthe,
                                
                                  And dropis as dew or a danke rayne.
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                                  All wery I wex and wyll of my gate,
                                
                                  And raght to my reyne, richet o lenght,
                                
                                  Bound vp my blonke to a bogh euyn;
                                
                                  And graithed me to grounde as me gode liked,
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                                  In a shadow of shene tres & of shyre floures,
                                
                                  Ouer hild for þe hete hengyng with leues.
                                
                                  My bow þat was bigge, & my bright qwyuer,
                                
                                  Arowes and other geire atled I anon,
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                                  Pight as a pyllow, put vnder my hede;
                                
                                  And sleghly on slepe I slypped be lyue.

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Title: The "Gest hystoriale" of the destruction of Troy: an alliterative romance tr. from Guido de Colonna's "Hystoria troiana." Now first ed. from the unique ms. in the Hunterian Museum, University of Glasgow, with introduction, notes, and a glossary, by ... Geo. A. Panton, and David Donaldson, esq.
Author: Colonne, Guido delle, 13th cent.
Canvas: Page 78
Publication: London,: Pub. for the Early English Text Society, by N. Trübner & Co.,; 1869-1874.
Subject terms: Troy (Extinct city) -- Legends

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